In A Normal Society, A Thing Like This Would Have No Future...

Authorities said they have 10 days to administer a behavioral study on the dog and determine its future, including the possibility of euthanizing it.

That it's only a possibility tells you all you need to know, doesn't it?

The 25-year-old pet owner was tying her sneakers in her bedroom when she was suddenly attacked last Thursday, Colombian media outlets reported.

What's the Spanish for "Oh, he's never done that before.."?

And did I call it yesterday, or what? Multiple surnames, hyphens, ghetto-culture aspects ('Treysharn'..? Really?) and the inevitable chavshrines being built by 'the community', who all seem to be claiming to have tried to carry out CPR on the victim....

Detective Inspector Lisa Milligan said: ‘Our officers take the issue of dangerous dogs very seriously. Over the past years we have worked proactively with the five local authorities in Merseyside to ensure prohibited dogs are taken off the streets.’

Until the people that have a fatal attraction to creatures like this stop buying them, your officers are sadly wasting their time... 

Chavilicious!

The vignette of modern life that is the Essex policewoman's killer dog story hurls another pint of accelerant onto the PR bonfire:

A justgiving page has been set up by Mrs Labbett’s close friend, Teresa Williams, to raise funds for the funeral costs and for further care of Daniel-Jay.

She is also holding a fundraising night in Dovercourt on November 26.

I know police farces are supposed to 'reflect the community they serve', but isn't this going a bit too far?

An Anguished Plea...

All I wished was for a farmer not to subject walkers with unwarranted risk of disease and upset whilst walking on a public footpath...and to treat his fallen livestock with a modicum of dignity...

Ummm, what?

Resident Wez Hollin’s 19-year-old daughter Liselle was distressed after she came across the sheep whilst walking the family dog.

Wez said: “She was walking down the path and came across a decomposing dead sheep with no eyes.

“It had been tied to a gatepost right at the side of the footpath.

“It really disturbed her. And surely it’s a health risk by this time.”

Her fiance Simon Teale, 46, went to help Liselle after she found the sheep.

And, as you do these days, went straight to the local paper to register the shock, distress, and OUTRAGE! that seeing a dead sheep causes today's overprotected and pampered children.

Whereupon the comment section tore into her much like those sheep-worrying dogs...

Mr Middleton said he had now removed the sheep and had not wanted to upset responsibile dog owners.

He said: “It’s a busy pathway down by the river. When the weather is right over 100 dogs go over there every day.

“I’ve nothing against dog owners. I want them to help me find out who it is who is letting her dogs chase my sheep.”

The first commenter has the best suggestion. Just shoot the dog!

Flogging A Dead... Well, Not Horse, Exactly...

Remember this case? Well, it's back in the 'York Press':

Kia now hopes to raise money for a personalised headstone for her daughter’s grave at Fulford Cemetery, which currently only has a name plaque.

But at least they are learning - comments are disabled on this story! The populace might not say what the paper clearly wants them to say...

Oh, and no. The cause of death has still not been determined to have been the damp flat, but this poverty bandwagon is rollin' so stay out of its way!

“We had to lose Telan before people could realise how bad poverty was in York,” said Kia.

Little Sanjay feels your pain, Kia... 

“We just can't get our heads round what happened.”

The family of a teenager who died in a road accident while his moped was being followed by police have called for a fresh investigation. Relatives of Kyle Bartlett have asked the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to release statements taken from the police after the fatal collision.

The calls come as the family still believe that the police were to blame for the accident, which saw Kyle and his 15-year-old friend come off the bike while being followed by a police car.

They are in a minority, though. Everyone else can see the writing on the wall.

An IPCC investigation has already concluded there is no evidence to support the accusation. And a jury sitting at a two-day inquest returned a verdict of accidental death earlier this week.

So, what’s the issue?

Kyle's auntie Shelley Crisp, from Meir, said: "Although we accept the verdict we are not happy with the outcome because we feel there are still a lot of inconsistencies. We feel there are still a lot of things that don't add up in the police statements."

Such as?

The deputy coroner ruled that Kyle could have stopped if he had wanted to. But Mrs Crisp, aged 37, said: "As soon as we came out of court I was on the phone to the IPCC asking if we can have access to the police statements.

"We don't feel that we have had justice for Kyle because it is still unclear what happened. "We can't get closure until we have seen the witness statements for ourselves."

It’s not ‘closure’ (Ugh! How I loathe that particular Americanism..) you really want, is it?

Kyle, a former pupil of Blythe Bridge and Endon High school, had intended to join the Army. Shelley, a telesales supervisor, said: "He was just your typical 16-year-old lad who loved life. Everybody who knew him loved him for his massive smile."

Yes, yes. They always are, aren’t they?

Shelley said: "It has been devastating because he had his whole life ahead of him. Instead, he suffered for his own stupidity. We had to bury him on his 17th birthday."

Make up your mind, Shelley! Wasn’t it ‘the fault of the police’ a scant two paragraphs ago?

His aunt added: "We are going to keep fighting for this and I hope the IPCC will agree to our request. We just can't get our heads round what happened."

Oh, I think you can, if you try.

Personal Responsibility Takes Another Hammering...

...thanks to coroner David Hinchliff:

He said he would write to the landlord of the property in Lindsay Mount, in the Burmantofts area, and recommend they look into fitting all windows with static inhibitors to prevent them opening too wide.

He also said he would recommend regular inspections of the properties to ensure safety features are in place and working.

Why not just suggest that stupid, irresponsible, caring-only-for-their-own-pleasures parents be prevented from breeding in the first place, David?

Wouldn't that actually do more damn good?

The inquest heard that Liam, with his mother, father and siblings, had been living in his grandfather’s one-bedroom flat for three weeks while they waited to be rehoused.

On the day of Liam’s death, on May 31, the family were in the bedroom of the flat for around three hours while workers replaced carpet tiles in the living room.

Mr Hinchliff said the window in the bedroom was opened as the room became 'very warm and stuffy' and the adults were smoking.

I'm surprised that little fact didn't bring the anti-smoking zealots out like a pack of ravenous hounds...

Any chance of a prosecution of those responsible for his safety?

Mrs Shackleton, Liam's grandfather Peter Shackleton, another relative, Shaun Shackleton, and Mrs Shackleton's friend were all arrested on suspicion of child neglect.

Liam's father was also arrested at a later date.

No charges were brought against any of those arrested.

*sigh*

Mrs Shackleton, 29, who broke down in tears during the inquest, issued a poem she wrote about Liam in which she described how she missed her "precious son".

She wrote: "Words cannot describe the sadness this brings or how very dearly you are missed. Knowing that you are no longer here is very painful indeed. An emptiness now exists which only you once filled.

"You were a wonderful son, you gave me so much joy, you would make any parent proud."

She ought to do ten years for that alone.

The Laws Of Physics Can’t Be Circumvented By Mawkish Sentiment

Thoughts of the day her ‘lovable rogue’ (Ed: !!!) died following a stolen motorbike crash have come flooding back to a mother after her son’s cousin was murdered.

Unlucky family…

The 38-year-old says her son had wanted to be a motorcross rider. She added: “He was a lovable rogue and he had a real passion for motorbikes. “His passion took his life. ”

No. No, it didn’t. His criminal action and general recklessness took his life.

Many, many people have ‘a passion for motorbikes’. It isn’t dangerous in and of itself.

“He just went out to do what boys do but he got into trouble on the way. ”

“He did not go out that night to get the bike, it just happened .. ”

*sigh* The passive voice again, married to the concept that a love of fast driving is the problem itself, not the actions taken to secure that drive.

Which is clearly evident in another story in the same paper:

The parents of a bike fanatic who died in a motorcycle crash have paid tribute to their “exceptional” and “darling boy”.

He wasn’t ‘a loveable rogue’ by dint of the fact the motorbike wasn’t stolen.

Mr and Mrs Coates, who also have a daughter, Rebecca, said: “He was such a skilful rider and rode with such courage and talent.

“His other love was that of his car.

“The scrupulous hours of dedication and investment that Luke put into his pride and joy showed what a conscientious and meticulous person he was.

“He drove his car like his bikes - hard and fast.”

And isn’t it lucky for some poor unsuspecting innocent driver or pedestrian that he hit a tree, and not them?

“The highways of heaven have no hard landings son, go for it.”

Ewww! Chavilicious!